From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Friesen Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 03:48:01 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] closing the loop -- retries and acks Message-Id: <40382671.3020202@sympatico.ca> List-Id: References: <403305A3.2070604@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <403305A3.2070604@sympatico.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:44:48AM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote: >>Kay Sievers wrote: >>>Oh, and we don't handle a crashing udev :) >> >>We would if this patch was added... > How would we? If udev dies, how would we recover? If udev dies from a random event (rather than coding error), we never send back the ack from udevd, udevsend times out and tries again. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel